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Direct linkStig-Börje Asplund; Birgitta Ljung Egeland; Christina Olin-Scheller – Language and Education, 2024
This paper explores young people's narratives about BookTok and volitional reading. The data consist of narrative interviews with eight students (all girls) from two different classes in year 1 and year 2 of a preparatory programme for higher education, that is, students aged 17-18 years old. Using the framework of Wenger's notion of communities…
Descriptors: Social Media, Reading, Communities of Practice, Personal Narratives
Download full textLamb, Pamela; Vanner, Catherine; Raissadat, Haleh; Nyariro, Milka; Sadati, S. M. Hani – Global Education Review, 2020
Many challenges exist to conducting participatory research and consultation with young people, especially with those considered vulnerable or at risk. Beyond respecting the safety and wellbeing of young research participants, researchers must be aware of barriers to youth engagement and be attuned to the many forms of youth resistance. As young…
Descriptors: Females, Participatory Research, At Risk Persons, Barriers
Chang, Lei; Lu, Hui Jing; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Skinner, Ann T.; Bornstein, Marc H.; Steinberg, Laurence; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Chen, Bin Bin; Tian, Qian; Bacchini, Dario; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Pastorelli, Concetta; Alampay, Liane Peña; Sorbring, Emma; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Oburu, Paul; Malone, Patrick S.; Di Giunta, Laura; Tirado, Liliana Maria Uribe; Tapanya, Sombat – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Safety is essential for life. To survive, humans and other animals have developed sets of psychological and physiological adaptations known as life history (LH) tradeoff strategies in response to various safety constraints. Evolutionarily selected LH strategies in turn regulate development and behavior to optimize survival under prevailing safety…
Descriptors: Safety, Physiology, Psychological Patterns, Longitudinal Studies
Overlien, Carolina; Hyden, Margareta – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2009
The aim of this article is, by analysing children's discourses, to investigate their actions or absence of actions during a domestic violence episode. The empirical data are recorded group therapy sessions and individual interviews with children who have grown up experiencing their fathers' violence against their mothers. The analysis shows that…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Psychotherapy, Group Therapy, Child Behavior
Mulinari, Diana; Neergaard, Anders – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2010
Migration and neo-liberal restructuring are two of the most discussed phenomena with regard to globalisation. In this article, the authors have sought links between these processes in a Swedish context and the experiences of racialised as they spoke about schooling and the role of parents in their educational situation. The aim of the article is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Migrants, Educational Experience, Racial Attitudes
Peer reviewedHallden, G. – Gender and Education, 1997
Studied narratives written by 141 13- and 14-year-old boys in Sweden on the theme "My Future Family." Narratives were analyzed in relation to how the boys characterized relationships and used "I" and "we." It is argued that the narratives reflect the boys' way of exploring a male identity. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Competence, Family (Sociological Unit), Foreign Countries
Torstenson, Tullie – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2007
This article is based upon two studies applying a life history approach, letting 15- to 16-year-olds reconstruct their own childhood in preschool and school, to see what meaning and importance children's experiences have in forming their self-concepts and philosophy of life. A combination of methods was used: written life stories, round tours in…
Descriptors: Biographies, World Views, Children, Adolescents
Peer reviewedHallden, Gunilla – Gender and Education, 1999
Examines stories written by adolescent boys on the theme, "My Future Family." Stories reflected how boys explored male identity through the main character. Boys completed the assignment differently, connecting to various styles and genres (not found in girls' stories) and portraying widely varying main characters. Stories combined…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Family Life, Foreign Countries, Males
Peer reviewedHallden, Gunilla – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 1998
Analyzed narratives about future family life and themselves as fathers written by 13- to 14-year-old boys in suburban and rural Swedish communities to examine adolescent construction of self-identity. Found that their writing connected to fellowship, equality, and knowledge transmission. The father role in the narratives gave boys access to adult…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Content Analysis, Family Life
